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...recession, say members of TIME's Board of Economists, who gathered in Manhattan last week for a daylong session. Not all were satisfied with the outlook, by any means. Arthur Okun, senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution, noted that Washington policymakers, fearful that the rapid advance needed to cut unemployment would plunge the nation into still worse inflation, have kept the economy "on a tightrope." But the economists agreed to a man that business will come out of its summer slowdown-indeed, is already doing so-into a period of steady no-boom-no-bust expansion. Said...
...responsibility for being the original source of the outbreak. It put the blame on Lebanon, where Syrian soldiers on peace-keeping duty in devastated Beirut were said to have picked up the disease and carried it back to Damascus and their native villages. That may be true, but the rapid spread of the disease did not speak well for Syrian medicine and sanitation. Indeed, President Assad rebuked his health authorities for their poor performance. They responded by closing swimming pools, public beaches, fruit juice and ice cream parlors, and many restaurants. Proprietors of the restaurants that remained open were warned...
...loving, rapid, merciless...
...Indians, however, also have social and cultural motivations. The severely limited number of jobs in the town has forced many Indians to move off the Island in search of employment, helping to whittle away at the ethnic unity of the Wamponoags and furthering the already rapid process of assimilation. Wright says "all the kids have moved off the Island to get jobs or to be able to afford land...
HUNGER, most Americans seem to believe, is one of those insoluble problems, a result of rapid population growth in a world with limited resources. Newspapers have stopped running those heart-wrenching pictures of malnourished babies in the Third World; we seem to have reached a tacit agreement that if the Green Revolution could not feed the world, nothing can. People will go on starving--in Bangladesh, in the Sahel, on the outskirts of every large Third World city--and the best we can hope to do is buy time until things get really serious, and save ourselves when they...